Electrocutions, ‘mental terror’ and withheld wages: The exploited workers building Europe’s #datacentres - https://www.investigate-europe.eu/posts/electrocutions-mental-terror-and-withheld-wages-the-exploited-workers-building-europes-data-centres "harsh realities facing some working on the continent's vast #AI infrastructure developments."

We're at #FOSSCOMM2026!

https://2026.fosscomm.gr/

Come and visit our booth at the University of Attica in Athens, Greece and find out what's new at KDE.

> I think we should shed the idea that AI is a technological artifact with political features and recognize it as a political artifact through and through. AI is an ideological project to shift authority and autonomy away from individuals, towards centralized structures of power. Projects that claim to “democratize” AI routinely conflate “democratization” with “commodification”.

Ali Alkhatib: Defining AI
https://ali-alkhatib.com/blog/defining-ai

@TheBreadmonkey Bensmania!!! Lord, save us!!!

Welchen Aufschrei gibt's denn eigentlich gegen den Mitte-Rechts-Sumpf hier? Aber ja, alle Blicke auf das Land #Berlin, wen interessiert was die tonangebende EVP unter Manfred #Weber so in Brüssel macht... https://www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/eu-weber-evp-griechenland-berater-ermittlungen-li.3567304

it sort of feels like all of modern "tech" is one big push to turn the entire world into a subscription service.

Laden with surveillance and ads, of course.

@erincandescent you could maybe find it via import or pharmacies compounding but it was rarer for endocrinologists to prescribe, especially as a primary import country was outside of DACH and compounding pharmacies were hard to find.

I'm going based on what my new endocrinologist told me yesterday, but I was starting an MCAS crash so I might be misremembering something. All I know is I can now finally get injectables when previously I definitely couldn't.

As a man, after doing a horrendously pungent shit in a unisex public toilet cubicle, I often lift the seat so that if I pass anyone on the way out, they'll think I just did a piss and the stench was from the person before me.

Na hoppla!
Spiegel: Der 11. Senat des OVG »teile die Auffassung des Verwaltungsgerichts, dass Tatsachen vorlägen, die eine gegen die freiheitliche demokratische Grundordnung gerichtete Bestrebung belegten«

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/ng-interactive/2026/sep/16/slave-trade-wealth-britain-financial-system-bank-of-england-enslaved-africans

"The Bank itself, and the Treasury, were centrally involved in paying out £20m, the equivalent of £23bn today according to one method of calculation, in “compensation” to enslavers under the abolition legislation. Nothing was paid to the people who had been enslaved and trafficked."

Ah, the UK, where politicians assert that land ownership based on who your great great...great grandpa was friends with in 1066 is fine, 21st century wealth based on enslaving people in the 19th century is just the natural order, but reparations? We don't base policy on the past!

Even when the debt to pay off the people who enslaved Africans was being bankrolled by UK taxpayers until 2015.

Reparations are owed. Abolish the monarchy and use the Crown's wealth to pay for it.

❌ He past away
✅ He went the way of the pasta

I don't think there is supposed to be a bare wire in the ceiling junction box, right?

@cabel literally the same issue here. i hate it.

@jannem Senesino, no doubt!

We're doing some online shopping, and while looking for our usual toilet paper, this came up. Smart toilet paper.

Wife and I looked at each other, and spent the next five minutes discussing why the flying fuck would you want your toilet paper to be internet connected, and what would it even do to make them smart.

We have... dirty minds.

Ich habe das sogenannte "Metroidvania" Genre über die Jahre sehr gut kennengelernt und hätte nicht geglaubt, dass ich noch überrascht werden kann. Weit gefehlt, denn ECHO WEAVER bringt nicht nur meine geliebten Groundhog Day-Zeitschleifen ins Spiel, sondern begeistert auch mit genialem Level Design und einer völlig unerwarteten Item-Progression. PFLICHTKAUF!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GChY_--5MmY